State Police Stage Reconstruction Reign Of Terror
Published August 19, 2008 | By Bartee Haile
State Police Stage Reconstruction Reign Of Terror The trigger-happy state police opened fire without warning on a crowd of Saturday shoppers in Brownwood on Aug. 19, 1871. In his inaugural address in April 1870, Republican Edmund J. Davis asked fellow Radicals for a new law-enforcement legion to bring Reconstruction order to the chaotic countryside. Two months later, the governor got his wish
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